I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'

Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.

I'm not regimented. I don't diet, and I exercise the way I want to.

My favorite thing to do is eat and eat well.

Choosing a role is very difficult. There's no way to have a strategy.

I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

If you have the talent and if you have the ability, and you work for it, you can achieve your goals.

Skating is in my heart, not my head

I don't believe in happy families.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.